I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
JOHN KEATSI almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
JOHN KEATSI have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
JOHN KEATSTo silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
JOHN KEATSTo stay youthful, stay useful.
JOHN KEATSI will clamber through the clouds and exist.
JOHN KEATSYou have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.
JOHN KEATSParting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
JOHN KEATSAnd when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
JOHN KEATSDo you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
JOHN KEATSWe have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
JOHN KEATSDo you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
JOHN KEATSA thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
JOHN KEATSFanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
JOHN KEATSI will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
JOHN KEATSIf poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
JOHN KEATSAn extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
JOHN KEATS